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Smelling things that aren't there, like cake or even smoke, during the aura phase of a Migraine attack is called olfactory hallucination. There are four phases of a Migraine attack: prodrome, aura, headache and postdrome. For more information on this you can read our article: Anatomy of a Migraine.

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